Refuse Defeat With Megan

After hearing Kristie's story, this was the first image that popped into my head! (I do not own copyrights to this image)Your next move may be your best move. As long as you keep moving, you are moving closer to your dream! I repeat this to myself at least once a week. It is your duty, to share the knowledge and the passion about your service or product with anyone that will listen! Can this be hard, YESS! I can’t say that enough. Will everyone understand what you are talking about or your passion, no, but that twinkle behind your eye may catch the attention or your largest producer or your best client. It is possible to make a sale without being salesy and just sharing what you love. The excitement, the drive, the creativity that goes into the way you explain your service or product may just be the right words to turn a no into a maybe. Then by showing consistency, that maybe may turn into a absolutely.Krisitie has multiple examples of types of business, so this does not fall into j

Chris’ shares his story on firing a high paying, high stress, high maintenance client. These clients can be detrimental to your business, your health, and your all around being. Imagine hating your job. Hating going to the company YOU built because of one client.I have had these and I know I have been this client (not going to lie to you)! From personal experience, why was I this client? After much research I realized the company we were paying to be experts in a specific field was taking advantage of the lack of our education in this market. While, doing a poor job on their job I started to ask questions. As I started to learn and seek information on what they do, what they should be doing. I realized this can go 2 ways. They will shape up and do what they should be doing because we have been a paying client for well over 5 years or they will get fired. Around the time I was going to fire them, they beat me to the punch! They hated that I questioned them, held them accountable, and checked up - but that was

STOOOOPPP WHAT YOU ARE DOING! If you have ever thought I’m nervous what blah blah blah will think. What if people unfollow me. What if they talk bad about me this interview is for you!As I interview people, it is the exact message I needed to hear that day. It has been the craziest circumstances, but very eye opening. Monique hit on perfection and not worrying about other opinions. I have yet to meet someone that hasn’t suffered from 1 of these 2 issues, if not both! Being too perfect can be a barrier to entry for you + finally launching your business. Evaluate what is benefiting you and what is limiting. Recognize things can be excellent without being perfect, and they are still very good. It is ok to revise! Think about YOUR why and why it is important to you. Why is your passion important + why does someone else’s opinion matter to me. Your passion is going to help you help people, show people the correct way of doing something, and bring financial abundance in your life. Why are you letting someone else’s

Business can be very fun and lucrative! It can also be soul crushing all around money, family, and friendships. Let’s be honest, being an entrepreneur has some REALLY good days and some REALLY bad bays. What makes you an entrepreneur is the fact you keep going and conquer all days!One would never ideally think about a family member or friend purposely giving them  bad advice, right! Well, it happens. I think most cases I hear about a deal doing bad there is a family or friend involved that meant well at the beginning. I know when you are out there hustling for business and spending your last few cents on pb&j or 1 more campaign it may be hard to see the value in discussing with an attorney or advisor. I didn’t see the value either when I was starting, but just like John, $100 could have saved him thousands + all the time spent. There are pretty inexpensive options when looking for quick business advice. Below I listed two I found from a simple Google search, keep in mind you can always interview attorneys in

This takeaway is a little different. I normally like to give specific actionable steps on how to avoid the type of failure we discussed. I don’t want you to think, ugh I am wasting my time there’s no steps here, but this is something I had to do myself to really determine my journey. In this take away I want you to dive deep! We can give millions of excuses, but why do you actually tell yourself NO! Are you justifying your lack of conscience? Are you worried about what some may think? What about if you fail?Dig deep to find your no. Most likely this is a seed that was planted in you very early in life. It may even been by mistake, but ultimately it comes back to your responsibility to determine it and fix it. Find your “problems” and when you take the time to learn about yourself, that may be your passion project. You may be a warrior in finding your problem that you can actually help others in overcoming that struggle or battle. I know it sounds so crazy! A year ago, I would not be writing anything like this

Investing money without a plan on how you will get a return on investment. We need to be aware of how we are feeling. Money is a hard point for many people, and realizing that we have been spending our money in the wrong places. Learning lesson on how she was showing up and why she was investing in the wrong places without having a strategic plan. You may think this next big course is it. It will help you finally reach your ideal business goals, everyone is taking it, this person has this popular course, but then you purchase it. You may get caught up doing other things other than fulfilling the course or you made find the next shiny object that deter you from your original goal taking this course. Always ask yourself Is this an investment in my business or yourself. Is this an expense? Can I do without it? Is this my best route? If you think you can do without it this may fulfill the creativity you were looking for in entrepreneurship. What else can I do without spending any money or a lot less

Establishing your business. Ready to prove you are the best in your niche. You have it all figured out, and you are ready to go. Now, just minor details… How do you get paid? Do you get paid at the beginning, middle or end? Do you get paid on a payment plan. Will you always be ahead or even? These are questions you will want to think about. I love math, so this is what I break down before I even do research on my idea. I have to know if I should continue with this thought or move on to the next. Although you may be a person with high integrity and be on top of your bills, many others aren’t and sadly, many will take advantage of nice people. Are you thinking that those aren’t your “avatar” or ideal client so you shouldn’t attract those people? Sometimes it may be a true error, but why put your life, your money, your bills, your dream business in risk of not getting paid because of someone else’s mistake? Business is business, tell your clients your rules and establish a clean business relationship! You

If I could, I would delegate my life. After my burn out, I spent HOURS learning about delegation. My mentor told me about it, told me I needed help, but never explained how to find it or how to train and actually delegate. My doctor kept telling me I needed to unload my schedule and make my life less stressful. Basically, delegation is necessary, but can be SO hard for any business owner! You may be thinking, well I can’t afford to hire someone. Do you know how much the service cost? How much time or money are they costing you? Can your business afford a burnout? If hiring someone for a few dollars will skyrocket your business, would you do it? David mentions that not delegating is like running your business looking at your feet. Then when you look up you are hitting a wall of either financial struggle or burnout. A few hours a day or a few tasks weekly that can free up your time may be worth looking into a Virtual Assistant for or finding services like the ones featured below to free up some time! There

Whether you are pitching for a potentially life changing event, like Joshua was for TEDx, preparing for an interview, or pitching your services to a potential client you should know about your audience. Event Pitch: Choose the event you wish to be apart of. Do your research on HOW TO APPLY. Most of the time, you can Google the event and someone has written an article on their experience or you may even find the perfect how-to apply guide. Do your research on the actual event type. After this interview I did some research on TEDx talks in my area. I found it extremely easy to find information once I started looking for it. (I even applied for one! The one I applied for had a theme, and I’m not sure if I am actually a good fit - but I will let them make the decision.) *Make sure to know if there is a due date for submissions! Now, the lesson Joshua mentioned is knowing the audience. If you do enough digging, you can find the information on the people in charge of the event. I am not sure if you

Do You Need a Business Partner? Have you lost time from a bad business deal? What about thousands of dollars? Ugh, what a stomach wrenching situation. You may be losing a relationship with a family member or a friend. This is someone you trusted to build your dream business, and they failed you. They potentially failed employees, your community and your reputation is on the line. When something starts to go wrong or went wrong, address the problem. Follow your gut feeling with each situation. If you ever feel like something may have been unethical or it may keep you up at night - address it as soon as possible. Communication really is #1 with a business partner. Here are some pointers to talk about prior to partnering in business: Review Personal Finances - how will bills continued to get paid while you are in “start-up”? What happens if the business needs more money? What happens when… anything to do with money. Depending on your business this can be a make or break situation. You want to know your part

When opportunity presents itself, take it! Showing up is more than half the battle. Side story: A while ago I was hiring an assistant. After multiple no-shows I got excited when someone showed up. Good interview or bad, they showed up! That says something. This wasn’t some minimum wage job out in the sun job either; good pay, health benefits, 401k, the whole nine yards (no degree necessary, 100% on the job training). And the person that got hired was 1/9 interviews scheduled. Can you believe it?! All she had to do was show up and she got the job. Jodi mentioned she stayed consistent, her clients could trust her to show up! By just staying consistent you will build trust. Her clients could trust her to put them through a nice hard and sweaty workout (very sweaty - I participated in a workout before we recorded) every time they showed up for a class. They never drove all the way to the gym to find out class was cancelled for the day.Have you ever shown up somewhere and they were closed during normal business ho

Monetization is an interesting topic for me. Any time I start a project, I think, how am I going to get paid IF I continue with this project. Often, I lose interest in the project or have a “shiny object” syndrome where I find something better to occupy my time if I’m not making a return on time/value as fast as I would like. Let me hear yaaaaa if you feel this way! This part of the conversation really spoke to me because I have stayed consistent with the idea on MeganGalane.com, I’ve known I want to build a business helping business owners, but I just haven’t figured out that exact, how am I going to set myself apart — HOW. I love providing these podcasts and sharing these awesome business owners (and their businesses) I have met along the way. Kyle and Rachel stated some very interesting points on how they got started and monetized because they had to! Their goal was to have their joint income coming from their business, but they didn’t have the direction when they first started. If you are feeling like

How Refuse Defeat Came About AHHHH — I am so excited to be sharing failures of people that seem to have their sh*& together! Seriously, I hate watching all these people on social media looking like they didn’t want to run away from all their problems at some point. I started Refuse Defeat to share business owner’s failures that almost ended their business! I actually got this great idea from a seminar I attended in the spring of 2018. I will share the name at a later date once I get the seminar host to come on the show ;). I told myself, going into this seminar I am not going to watch from the sidelines and not meet people and just reach out later and hope for the best. So, I waited until the last possible moment to share my win for the event! IT WAS AN AMAZING FEELING. I had the happy shakes and tears (so embarrassing). I was in line at the end of a 3 day seminar getting ready to take my picture with the cool host ever and then this bada$ business woman comes up to me and gives me a hug to tell me how pr

10 Ideas to Pick Yourself UpI am going to start by saying...100% of people are “salesman” at some point in your life. Whether you like to think of yourself of not in a position of sales, you are. You are selling yourself to the world daily. It can be how you carry yourself - are you confident are you shy? People can read your body language, you may be selling yourself poorly. Even jobs you would never think you are in sales, you are. Example: A stay-at-home mom trying to get a toddler to eat it’s vegetables:This could be a hard sale, you need to finish this because you’ll have strong bones and grow. A negotiation, you’ll get dessert after you finish all your broccoli. Loss of a sale, you just give up on the argument and let them run away broccoli free.  Hearing NO after NO can be daunting (and a huge mood kill), but what if you hear one YES after a day full on NOs? What if that one last conversation is your YES?  Does that seem too perfect? Ok, that’s fine. Let’s be real. If you are selling yourself as desper